All the Pretty Horses.

"Make a place on your bookshelf... If you love classic narrative, quest stories, adventure stories of high order transformed by one of the lapidary masters of contemporary American fiction, now is your hour of triumph": First Edition of All The Pretty Horses; Signed by Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses.

McCarthy, Cormac.

$2,800.00

Item Number: 68037

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

First edition of the first novel in McCarthy’s acclaimed Border Trilogy and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd.

All the Pretty Horses is an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century" (San Francisco Chronicle). "A taut, poetic evocation of the remote backcountry of south Texas and northern Mexico, strongly imagined and beautifully rendered by a very fine writerone of our bestwho deserves far more renown. The perception of horses is extraordinary, and Jimmy Blevins will take a place as one of the great characters of American literature" (Peter Matthiessen).

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp copy, uncommon signed and inscribed.

First edition of the author’s rare first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. Books signed by McCarthy are uncommon, especially his earlier novels. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example.

First editions of each title in the author’s acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. 3 volumes. Each volume is signed or inscribed. All the Pretty Horses is inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For Jim & Brenda with love Cormac.” The recipients were neighbors and friends of the author in El Paso, Texas. Cities of the Plain is signed by the author on the half title page and The Crossing on the title page. Each are fine in fine dust jackets. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp set, with exceptional provenance.

First edition of the author’s fourth novel and what many consider to be his finest. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a miniscule closed tear. Jacket design by Jack Ribik. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example.

First edition of McCarthy’s first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in a contemporary hand on the front free endpaper, “To John Sheddan Cormac McCarthy.”The recipient John Sheddan was a close friend of McCarthy’s. “Some of McCarthy’s friends claim that the character Gene Harrogate (a character in McCarthy’s novel, Suttree), or at least his watermelon venture, was based in some way on John Sheddan, “scholar, schemer, hustler, melon paramour” (Gibson 23)… However in a letter of response to Gibson’s article, Knoxvillian Buzz Kelley writes that Sheddan was “probably McCarthy’s best and most loyal friend from the Knoxville crowd,” holder of two master’s degrees, and not at all “a violator of vegetables nor one to fornicate with fruits” (Dianne C. Luce, Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period). Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An excellent association.

Second printing of the first novel in McCarthy’s acclaimed Border Trilogy and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Mary Bailey all best wishes Cormac McCarthy.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd.

First edition of the author’s fifth novel. Octavo, original half red cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half title page. An excellent example in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. An exceptional example.

First edition of the author’s second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Jimmy and Chris From El Paso Texas September 18, 1990 From your friend Cormac.” Additionally signed in full by Cormac McCarthy below. The recipients were close friends of McCarthy. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. A nice association.

First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed biography on J.M. Keynes. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth, illustrated. Inscribed by the author in each volume. Each are near fine with the dust jackets that show only light wear.

First edition of Sharon’s autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed and dated by Ariel Sharon on the half-title page. Laid in a lecture announcement by Sharon. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.

First edition reprint of the original 1948 first edition of this influential text by the father of modern economics. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page, “Paul A. Samuelson MIT, 2007.” Its fundamental impact on the opinions and approaches of today’s most influential economists is extraordinary. Upon publication this text immediately became the authority for the principles of economics courses. The book continues to be the standard-bearer for principles courses, and continues to be a clear, accurate, and interesting introduction to modern economics principles. The New York Times considered Samuelson to be the “foremost academic economist of the 20th century”.